Report on our latest meeting 03-04-2025 the first of our shield competitions for 2025.

In charge of competitions for the club is David Hobson, the subject matter for this competition was to make a money box, all 3 categories of members were tasked with the same remit. This was not as easy as it first appears the making of a money box using a lathe requires some considerable consideration, and there were precious few examples on line for you to copy, this was going to be very interesting to see exactly what the members would come up with.

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Calendar Updates

One or two members told the secretary that the dates on the website were not adjusted to the change in competition date. Bob assures you that he did check when he got home and all seems to be correct. The amended dates were published on 11th March. He assumes that you may not have refreshed the page from a previous viewing.

Report by Alec Mutch on our meeting 06-03-2025. Organized by David Hobson.

Our meeting on Thursday 6th March 2025 was a demonstration by Mark Sutton on the art of making boxes.

After being introduced by our new chairman, Mark gave the meeting a short history about his turning. He was a founding member of this club that started in 2006 and is still a member today. His involvement in the demonstration circuit came about by Alec asking Mark to do demonstrations at our premises. This led on to him doing demonstrations elsewhere . Mark always comes back to his roots in the club when invited to do a demonstration.

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Membership form.

We have a new form for all members to complete and also as an application form for people who would like to join. Please click here to access it , and return to hwctreasurer@gmail.com